This tool was always a tech-bro tool for people who do not understand how easy it is to make HTTP calls and now the startup mindset is catching up. "Funny" how it is the big-tech AI company that should already have plenty of data that still corrupts even more everything.

Like always, enshitification.

Programming sucks. Code sucks. It's hard to read, hard to test, and hard to maintain. Only a handful of people can understand any particular software project. These are major problems. I'm here to explain how we can fix them.

We& liked the ideas posed in this article. Literate programming has intrigued us for some time, and those of us who like Windows (in a retrocomputing sense lol) are also quite fond of Visual Basic (at least pre-.NET), which is at least part way towards a visual programming environment.

A list of wikis with policies prohibiting generative AI

This is a fledgling community of programmers who view programming as an art, and thus reject AI.

I found a cool browser extention that blocks ai slop on youtube. It uses a community sourced list, much like sponser block.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ai-channel-blocker-for-youtube/

It can either put a overlay over the thumbnail telling you it's been marked as ai and has a button to show anyway or just hide it completly. I like the overlay option so I can click show anyway and then then the click do not reccomend option. Also super easy to submit any unflagged channels, a flag in the playback bar. It then goes on to be reviewed by people that make sure real channels don't get dragged in (they have a way to report false-positives too).

Maybe someone more familiar with extentions can help dig in to make sure it isn't doing something sketchy in the background.

Cross posted from https://programming.dev/post/58639203

Reassure the world your work was made by humans.

US techno-fascists threatening democratic-elected MPs who denounce the erasure of our data privacy.

A great and long article about why it's important to resist in all forms and for all purposes. Well sourced and written.

Archived version

A report just in from the Kernel Maintainers Summit on 8 October reveals just how full AI slop the Linux kernel project has gone. And so has project leader Linus Torvalds.

Full quote:

Generative AI and it's applications hold a mirror up to the face of capitalism itself. Under capitalism we are blessed with the miracles of being able to buy anything from anywhere. But behind the curtain lies exploitation.

Ok I don't fully agree with the guy, especially with the "we are blessed with the miracles of being able to buy anything from anywhere" (you are not me/us) but this is good sentence overall and I feel this phrasing might resonate more to western people.

Feel free to share your thoughts if this is a good quote and/or a good video overall.

PS : quote is at 15:46

Nothing really new but this seems a nice summary with sources linked.

Shows whether 'AI' is profitable yet or not by listing several companies which are related to, or primarily deal in hardware and software around 'AI' and showing their profits and losses.

There are so many beings who do art, it's wonderful. Everymany should do art, it's theraputic

We're trying really hard to keep this positive.

So yeah! Grab a pen, and doodle on a desk, paper, napkin, or like, on own skin!

Or like, download a paint app on phone, and scribble! We use FossifyPaint, but many apps these days come with a paint app. Check if the gallery has a paint feature, by pressing what is often a ✏️ icon, or 3 dots at a corner and an option such as "Edit" should come out.

Happy drawing!

Learn how to sing, how to beatbox, or invent a toally new art form. Just. Do. Art.

Please read our pronouns before addressing us
#art, #visualArt

this is disgusting

They put slop next to resources for learning art

Educational • freemediaheckyeah - https://fmhy.net/educational#art-editing

Please read our pronouns before addressing us
#slop, #aiSlop, #art, #antiAI, #AIisnotart

System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.

"As the AI race reaches white-hot temperatures, big tech companies are caught up in a heated race to build as many pollution-belching and power-sucking data centers as they can.

And while the Trump administration is largely clearing their way by easing environmental rules for the polluting facilities, other governments are less inclined to give companies a pass.

As Finnish newspaper Kaleva reported last month, Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of the European nation without concluding the necessary environmental assessments."

Please sign if any here care about well made and maintined code, the planet not dying, consent of coders, contributors, users and artists and probably more things that need caring about in today's cynical and uncaring world.